---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 30917"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "30917"
heading: "Disposition of amounts recovered by the United States"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/30917"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Maritime Liability"
  - "Chapter 309 — Suits in Admiralty Against the United States"
---

# §30917. Disposition of amounts recovered by the United States


Amounts recovered in a civil action brought by the [United States](/usc/46/114.md) on a claim arising from the ownership, possession, or operation of a merchant [vessel](/usc/46/115.md), or the ownership, possession, or carriage of cargo, shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the department of the [United States](/usc/46/114.md) Government, or the [federally-owned corporation](/usc/46/30902.md), having [control](/usc/46/12113.md?p=c-2) of the [vessel](/usc/46/115.md) or cargo, for reimbursement of the appropriation, insurance fund, or other fund from which the compensation for which the judgment was recovered was or will be paid.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 6(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1520.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 30917 | 46 App.:751. | Mar. 9, 1920, ch. 95, § 11, 41 Stat. 528; Pub. L. 97–31, § 12(25)(D), Aug. 6, 1981, 95 Stat. 155. |

The words “or in connection with” and “with respect to which such cause of action arises” are omitted as unnecessary.